Visual Mediation of Unique Construction and Access Principles of the Amphitheatre of Durrës

Durrës, situated in today’s Albania, is a harbour city on the road between Rome and Constantinople. The questions on the amphitheatre of Durrës have arisen during the last decades of archaeological research. The particular problem is that the orientation of the amphitheatre negates the supply provided by the topography. Its axes are indeed twisted. Antic amphitheatres follow common principles in order to provide a common external appearance. Durrës deviated from the common way and required new solutions for construction and access. The findings are too rare to build a certain reconstruction upon. Still, the findings suggest that there must have been a special and individual solution, principles that pursue the single goal to provide an appearance and a functionality as similar as possible to the other amphitheatres. Based on scientifically based hypotheses created to an important extent during the common research project and their mutual consideration, the project demonstrates how a complex geometrical system has been analysed and synthesised and is being mediated visually by a set of complementary visualisations of different pictorial methods and architectural segmentation.

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Dominik Lengyel

Catherine Toulouse

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 46-51

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.8

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

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Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] M. Di Filippo, M. Di Nezza, F. Cecchini, S. Margottini, S. Santoro (2009) Anfiteatro Romano di Durazzo: Rilivi Geofisici ed Emergenze Archeologiche. Geo-Archeologia: Periodico dell’Associazione Geo-Archeologica Italiana, 2009– 1, pp. 33–51.

[2] T. Hufschmid (2009) Amphitheatrum in Provincia et Italia. Forschungen in Augst. Volume 43/01. Augusta Raurica, Augst.

[3] D. Lengyel, C. Toulouse (2013): Die Bauphasen des Kölner Domes und seiner Vorgängerbauten. Gestaltung zwischen Architektur und Diagrammatik. In: D. Boschung, J. Jachmann (Ed.): Diagrammatik der Architektur. Fink, Paderborn, pp. 327–352.

[4] D. Lengyel, P. Schaerer (2020): Visualisation. In: L. Hovestadt, U. Hirschberg, O. Fritz (Ed.): Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena. Birkhäuser, pp. 284–323

[5] L. Përzhita, I. Gjipali, G. Hoxha, B. Muka (2014) Prodeedings of the International Congress of Albanian Archaeological Studies. Centre for Albanien Studies Institute of Achaeology, Tiranë, Albania, 21–22 November 2013, Botimet Albanologjike Tiranë, Tirana.

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